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The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has scheduled ten (10) oral hearings for the month of April. The first five (5) were listed yesterday. The next five (5) are listed ...
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has scheduled ten (10) oral hearings for the month of April, as listed below. Here are the first five (5). All of the hearings ...
The Board affirmed two refusals to register the mark EMDROPS for "dietary and nutritional supplements in liquid form which do not include effective microorganisms or efficient microbes," finding the mark ...
Ruling that the marks IMÁGENES ESCONDIDAS and HIDDEN PICTURES are not "the same mark" for Section 2(f) purposes, the Board affirmed a Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusal to register the ...
By my estimation, somewhere around 85% of all Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusals that go to final decision at the TTAB are affirmed. Well, here are four appeals that were ...
The U.S Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has vacated the FLANAX decision of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (here), and has remanded the ...
Torrefazione Italia LLC opposed the application of Trinidad Coffee Company, Inc. to register the mark shown to the right, for coffee, claiming likelihood of confusion with the two marks shown ...
In an ex parte context, fame is seldom a factor in the du Pont analysis due to lack of evidence , but here Examining Attorney Sara N. Benjamin's submissions demonstrated ...
Things did not go smoothly for Skippy, Inc. in its attempt to take a second bite of the PB&J. Appearing pro se, it sought cancellation of Hormel's registration for the ...